Maine wants your ideas as it prepares to enter the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge, a $500 million grant competition among the states sponsored by the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services.
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Maine wants your ideas as it prepares to enter the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge, a $500 million grant competition sponsored by the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services.
Two national organizations are collaborating to offer webinars in the coming months focused on the use of federal Title I funds in early childhood education.
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Note: This dispatch was updated on Sept. 30, 2011, to include a Nov. 1 deadline for submitting performance report.
The Maine Department of Education is allowing school districts to begin filing online performance reports concerning their expenditures of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds awarded under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
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The Maine Department of Education is distributing $836,000 to the state’s school districts to fund special educational services for preschool-age children with disabilities for the 2011-12 school year.
The Maine Education Data Management System’s staff edition has received a number of upgrades and is open for staff data collection for the 2011-12 school year.
Staff data are due in MEDMS Staff by Sept. 30.
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The Maine Department of Education will accept applications from schools seeking to secure financing under the federal Qualified School Construction Bond (QSCB) and Qualified Zone Academy Bond (QZAB) programs through Oct. 14, 2011.
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Maine teachers, administrators, schools and school districts are eligible for a number of grants and other funding opportunities as the 2011-12 school year begins.
The Maine Department of Education has finalized 2011-12 funding amounts for school districts under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
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